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Uzbekistan gas explosion kills at least five

Uzbekistan gas explosion kills at least five

TASHKENT: A gas explosion tore through a flat in Uzbekistan killing at least five people, officials said Monday, as residents facing a brutal energy crisis resort to makeshift heat sources.Gas and electricity shortages in the Central Asian country have led to the sacking of a slew of senior officials this month, as Uzbekistan struggles under historically low temperatures.The resource rich ex-Soviet nation is plagued by ageing energy infrastructure, which regularly leads to deadly incidents.The emergencies ministry said the explosion on Sunday damaged a four-storey building in the city of Nukus, the administrative centre of the autonomous Karakalpakstan region, which last summer saw deadly protests over self-determination.The ministry said rescue workers pulled five bodies from the rubble and that an injured five-year-old girl was taken to hospital.The blast was triggered by an “air-gas mixture” in an apartment on the top floor, it added.The impoverished region of Karakalpakstan covers

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